CHICANA/O STUDIES is excited to offer CHIC
3900: Topics in Chicana/o Studies: Police Violence & Mass Incarceration
this Fall. The course will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 – 5:15pm
and will be taught by Assistant Professor Lena Carla Palacios. See below for
the course description.
We engage critically with issues raised by police
violence and mass incarceration of Chicanas/os-Latinas/os, asking what
legal historians, critical race theorists and feminist criminologists
can bring to the conversation and what we can learn from the critical
analysis and collective action of scholar-activists who are at the
forefront of migrant justice and anti-prison movements. Given the
importance of social media for the documentation, analysis and activist
organizing in response to policing, detention and deportation, the main
assignments in this course are blog posts, video essays, community
engagement, and youth-led participatory action research (YPAR). Although
the course focuses on Chicanas/os-Latinas/os it is comparative in
nature and will incorporate the voices and experiences of African
American, American Indian, and Asian American communities in the Twin
Cities.
